The Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 157, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1992 Page: 1 of 10
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ADVANCING TO STATE- Rosbel Garcia, Emilia Guerrero and alternate Carlos
Mata (left to right) will compete at the All-State Choir tryouts Jan. 9 at Corpus
Christi High School. Choir Director Jose Flores offers congratulations and good
luck to the Rio High students who excelled in earlier competition to reach this
level. (RGCCISD Photo).
Annual RGC Christmas
Parade scheduled Saturday
The Christmas Parade held
annually by the Rio Grande City
Chamber of Commerce is scheduled
to take place on Saturday, Dec. 12
at 10 a.m.
All entries are asked to register
on a form printed on PAGE 7 in
this edition of The Rio Grande
Herald and mail to the Rio Grande
City Chamber of Commerce office
at 601 East Main Street (laB.irde
House) or P.O. Box 2, Rio Grande
City, Texas 78582 or call
487-3024.
All checks should be made
available to the Rio Grande City
Chamber of Commerce. The entry
fee for floats is $15 for cars and S10
for trucks. Floats will be ^jdged and
the top three will receive cash
prizes of $ 100, $75 and $50.
The Parade Marsh U for this year's
Christmas Parade will be Leopoldo
Muniz of Rio Grande City.
Line up will be at 9 a.m.
Saturday in front of the Starr
County Courthouse. The Parade
will kick off at 10 a.m., starting at
the First National Bank and ending
at the Fort Ringgold grounds.
All schools, clubs and
organizations are encouraged to
partici, ate.
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Incorporation advocates
plan more public meetings
The committee advocating the
incorporation of Rio Grande City
recently met to discuss holding
inorc public meetings around area
neighborhoods to contend to
citizens that a municipality can be
set up without raising property
taxes.
Committee Chairman Noe
Sanchez stated that the main
concern of area property owners
regarding incorporation is that their
taxes would go up. "That will not
be the case since we all are already
paying too many taxes," Sanchez
said.
"The idea is to provide basic
services like fire and police
protection, maintain our streets,
control traffic and otherwise make
our city a safer, cleaner place in
which to live," Sanchez said.
"We need to have ordinances to
insure orderly growth and
development, including
subdivisions, and attract business
for our people," Sanchez insisted.
I oca! businessman Lauro Lopez
stated that he would be willing to
head up a committee of volunteers
to man telephones to inform people
about the benefits of incorporation.
Also in attendance was Polo
Trevino, who stressed the need to
emphasize the positive aspects of
incorporation and to let people
know that property taxes do not
have to go up.
Other meetings are planned
throughout the city to give people
an opportunity to learn more about
incorporation and to voice their
\>ncems.
A public meeting will next be
held on Friday, Dec. 11 at the Patio
Del Rio Restaurant beginning at 6
p.m. All citizens are urged to
attend.
Five rabies clinics
scheduled
Five rabies vaccination clinics are
scheduled throughout this coming
week in an effort to control the
four-year-old rabies epidemic that
has resulted in 90 confirmed cases
of the deadly virus and one human
fatality in Starr County.
Veterinarian Dr. Roberto S.
Hector Cerna returns
to San Antonio
Hector J. Cerna, exe*. live vice
president and advisory director of
the First National Bank of South
Texas, has returned to San Antonio
after serving with the bank's office
in Rio Grande City since May.
The announcement was made by
Fredrick Erck, chairman and
president of First National Bank of
South Texas.
Cerna served as executive vice
president of NationsBank's Real
Estate Banking Group and NBC
Bank of San Antonio, before
joining First National Bank of
South Texas.
He served as president of the
board of the San Antonio Real
Estate Financial Society in 1991
and was active in many San
Antonio civic organizations,
including the YMCA, United Way,
Boy Scouts Explorer Group, San
Antonio Neighborhood Housing
Services and the Hispanic Chamber
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Hector Cerna
of Commerce.
"Hector Cerna did an outstanding
job for us in Rio Grande City," said
Erck, "and we arc happy to bring
him back to San Antonio."
What citizens should
know about rabies
With the continuing and
apparently long-lasting rabies
epidemic in Starr County, it is
more important than ever before for
local citizens to know the relevant
facts about rabies and how to
protect themselves from the deadly
virus.
Since the epidemic began in
September 1988, there have been
90 confirmed cases of rabies in
Starr County and one human
fatality. The one fatality was an El
Sauz woman who died in August
1991 after apparently having been
exposed through the saliva of a
family pet.
In 1992 alone, there have been
more than 100 confirmed rabies
cases in South Texas, with the
outbreak now ranging as far north
as Victoria
Veterinarian Dr. Roberto S.
Margo indicates that five clinics are
planned for this coming week in an
effort to control the rabies problem.
The schedule of clinics is as
follows:
SATURDAY, DEC. 12- Roma,
Ramirez Firestone, 10 a.m. to
noon; Garceno, Silver Mine store,
2 to 3 p.m.
MONDAY, DEC. 14- San Isidro,
mini-gym, 4:30 ' 5:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, DEC. 15- Rio
Grande City, San Juan Plaza 4:30
to 5:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16- Los
Garcias, in front of Catholic
Church, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Margo noted that there have been
11 confirmed cases of rabies in
Starr County in 1992. He indicated
that the head of a dog in the Los
Garcias area has been sent to Austin
for testing and that this animal was
likely to have been a carrier of
rabies. As of Tuesday afternoon,
test results on this animal were not
complete.
According to the Dec. 29, 1988
Rio Grande Herald, the Texas
Health Department indicates that
"rabies is an animal disease. People
may catch rabies if they are bitten
or licked by an animal which has
the disease. When people have been
exposed in this way, only a series
of shots can keep them from
getting rabies."
Symptoms of rabies in animals
are as follows:
(1) Wild animals which seem to
be friendly or tame.
(2) Wild animals - like skunks,
foxes or bats - which you do not
usually see in the daytime.
(3) Pets which seem to have a
hard time walking, eating or
drinking.
(4) Signs of excitement or
meanness in animals.
(5) Animals which tear or scratch
at an old wound until it bleeds.
(6) Cattle which "strain" for long
periods.
The Health Department lists
some important facts about rabid
animals as follows:
"If a pet catches rabies, the way it
acts may change. A friendly dog
might want to be alone. A shy dog
might want attention. Rabid dogs
often become mean, roam, make
strange noises and attack people and
ouier animals. Fa; id animals drool
and sometimes swallow stones or
sticks and other things.
"Later, when the rabid animals
get even sicker, it will have trouble
chewing, swallowing, drinking or
walking. It may not be able to
close its mouth and may appear to
be choking. Never try to clear the
throat of an animal with these
syrnpu>ms. If you see an animal
with any of these symptoms, call
the police right away."
The Health Department says that
if you arc bitten by a rabid animal,
these steps need to be followed.
They may save your life:
(1) Quickly and throughly wash
the bite with soap and water and
rinse well, and put alcohol or iodine
on it to kill germs.
(2) See a doctor as soon as
possible. He will decide on what
you might need to do to avoid
rabies.
(3) Describe the animal which bit
you - the kind, size and color - to
the doctor or the health officer. Tell
children to get help from a
policeman, school guard or other
adult. Try to locate the animal or
try to keep track of it if you know
where it lives. Remember what it
looked like.
(4) If possible, have the biting
dog or cat tested for rabies or
quarantined for 10 days. Wild
animals should not be placed in
quarantine.
Trustees unoppose?
for re-election
Both incumbents of the Rio
Grande City CISD board of trustees
up for re-election in January 1993
will be unopposed for another
three-year term.
Board President Eloy R. Garcia,
who occupies Position Seven, will
be unopposed for re-election. Garcia
was elected to the board in January
1990, and also served as a board
member from 1985-88.
Incumbent Francisco "Paco"
Zarate, the occupant of Position
Six, is also unopposed for another
three-year term. Zarate has served
on the board of trustees since 1978,
for almost 15 years.
The upcoming school board
election is scheduled for January 16,
1993.
Maria Bazan known as
dedicated Band Booster
Margo stresses the importance of
all pet owners bringing their pets to
be vaccinated at these clinics. He
warned that Starr County citizens
must stay away from strange
animals, humanely dispose of
unwanted strays and keep their pets'
vaccinations up to date on an
annual basis.
The following clinics are
scheduled this coming week:
SATURDAY, DEC. 12- Roma,
in front of Ramirez Firestone, 10
a.m. to noon; Garceno, in front of
Silver Mine store, 2 to 3 p.m.
MONDAY, DEC. 14- San Isidro.
mini-gym, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, DEC. 15- Rio
Grande City, San Juan Plaza, 4:30
to 5:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16- Los
Garcias, in front of Catholic
Church, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Historical
Society meeting
Sunday
I he Starr County Historical
Society will meet on Sunday, Dec.
13 at 4 p.m. at the LaBorde House
in Rio Grande City.
The featured speaker will be Mr.
Pat Kelly of Laredo. Kelly will
discuss in detail the steamboats that
traveled the Rio Grande River in the
18(X)'s and stopped at Rio Grande
City.
The public is invited and
encouraged to attend this meeting.
Dinner will be served on a Dutch
treat basis.
By TISSA PETERSON
Maria Bazan is a very special
Band Booster. She has been work-
ing with the Band Boosters for
twenty years, supervising students
on band trips and helping in any
way she can. What makes Mrs.
Bazan unique in her service to the
Band Boosters is the fact that she
has never had a child who was a
band student.
Mrs. Bazan's son, Praxedis
Bazan, Jr., was a football player,
and she started going to the games
when he was playing.
Why does she continue to serve
the band in this way? "1 sec many
parents that can't go to help. They
don't have the time. Every time I
serve, it's because I want to help
the parents who are unable to.
Also, some students don't have
mothers."
Mrs. Bazan's husband, Praxedis
Bazan, who works at Los Pucrtos,
always encourages her to go help
the band if she wants to. "He tells
me, 'You belong to them, so go
ahead,"' she laughs.
Besides chaperoning on trips,
Mrs. Bazan sells refreshments on
the visitors' side at home games.
She has also been known to donate
hot dogs, chicken sandwiches,
lemons for musical lemons, and
other items to be sold at the
games.
"I enjoy being around all the stu-
dents," she stated. "By the time
Mr. Coninas started here, I had been
helping for several years with Mr.
Roel Gonzalez, the band director be-
fore Mr. Cortinas. All the band di
rectors have been very nice."
She has been going to games and
to other band trips for years. New
Mexico is the farthest field trip she
has been on with the band. She
also went with the band when they
participated in Governor Ann
Richards' inaugural parade. Other
trips have included competitions
with other schools at Pigskin, in
San Antonio, Edcouch-Elsa, and
Alice.
Mr. Cortinas says of Mrs. Bazan,
"We love her and really appreciate
all her help. She is really a nice
lady and is well-deserving of recog-
nition. We have several helpers
who have dedicated many years to
the band, as she has. You can tell
she enjoys being with the kids and
helping others. She's been here as
long as I can remember. She goes
with us on trips and helps in the
concession. She's always there to
offer a friendly smile or a sandwich
or whatever a person seems to
need."
R. C. Salinas, a band parent and
Band Booster, stated, "The parents
entrust her with their children
(See B AZAN, Page 7)
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Maria Kazan has worked with the Rio Grande City
Band Boosters for 20 years. She has chaperoned students
on band trips and helped in numerous other ways,
including selling refreshments on the visitor's side at
home football games. (RGCG1SD Photo).
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